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Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Delhi dress 5 Wants to know 9 Morocco’s capital 14 Like much brandy 15 Feed, as hogs 16 Primer mes del

calendario 17 *Vacation condo,

perhaps 19 French states 20 Crème de la

crème 21 *Foldable

whittling tools 23 Took home after

taxes

25 Going __:

bickering

26 Prefix with natal

or liberal

28 Get a hint of 33 *Nickname for

Batman’s Robin 39 Concrete support

rod

40 Poet Khayyám 41 Leaf under a

petal

43 Double Dutch

need

44 Scrabble pieces 46 *News article

starters

48 Artery inserts 50 Caribbean or

Aegean 51 Guthrie of folk 54 Not familyfrie­ndly, moviewise 59 *Roadside ad

medium 64 Accused’s “I was somewhere else” story

65 Onetime default

Word typeface 66 Sandbox sharers ... and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues 68 Starbucks choice 69 New Rochelle

campus

70 Artist Chagall 71 Leg joints 72 Break loudly, as

a twig

73 Not fooled by

DOWN

1 Prince of

Darkness 2 Nimble

3 Send payment 4 Latin “that is” 5 Baseball bat

wood 6 Waves-againstdoc­k sound 7 Divided land 8 Disbursed 9 Confirm, as a

password 10 Against

11 Wally’s little bro,

in old TV 12 Prado display 13 Mix, as salad 18 Court figure,

briefly

22 Josh

24 Homes for bears 27 Had too much,

briefly

29 Garr of “Tootsie” 30 Poetic black 31 Cod or Hatteras 32 Half of seis 33 Sources of much

spam

34 Leave out 35 Harvard rival 36 Small songbird

37 Govt.

antipollut­ion org. 38 “Darn it all!” 42 Lascivious look 45 Horses’ houses 47 West Coast

NFLer

49 Sign of a sellout 52 __ lazuli: blue

gem 53 Crease-resistant

fabric 55 Rent-a-car biggie

56 Industry bigwig 57 Movie critic

Roger

58 ’70s music genre 59 Pitcher’s false move when on the rubber, e.g. 60 Persia, now 61 Beer for dieters 62 After the deadline 63 Comedian

Carvey

67 Talk and talk

 ?? By Kurt Krauss ?? 8/16/21
By Kurt Krauss 8/16/21

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